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Romantic rose ceremonies are now part of pop-culture thanks to reality TV’s The Bachelor. But The Sleeping Beauty ballet is where you’ll find the original real-deal in single-stem suspense. At her 16th birthday celebration, Princess Aurora balances on one leg, on pointe, in a tricky-to-hold ‘attitude’ position, while greeting a line-up of handsome Princes –
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By Ben Neutze
Like many people who work with Australia’s live performance industry, I have conflicting feelings about the Helpmann Awards. On one hand, I think it’s important to celebrate the significant achievements of a vibrant industry, and I appreciate that the Helpmann committee and Live Performance Australia try pretty hard to make a national performing arts award consistent and representative.
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By Raymond Gill
When Stephen Found, the owner of the 2010 seat Sydney Lyric Theatre, is in New York checking out shows, he has to be careful to not accidentally roll onto his phone when he’s asleep. If he does, he might set off the app he designed that within a few seconds turns the vast Lyric from 2010 seats to a 1350 seat venue mid-performance
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‘Lord of the Flies’ written by ex-army man William Golding, is the renowned story of a group of schoolboys stranded on an island in the Pacific- and the savagery that ensues. What may seem at first a trivial tale of freedom, a child’s paradise where the restraints of the adult world are removed, descends into
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By Ben Neutze
As a gay teenager growing up in Perth, filmmaker and performer Daniel Monks used to stay up late at night and watch short YouTube films about sexuality. “I would delete the browser history so my parents wouldn’t find out, but those films let me feel less alone in my struggle — that other people go
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By Daily Review
Tim Minchin’s Matilda the Musical has continued its winning streak at Australia’s awards ceremonies, picking up eight Green Room Awards, including Best Production of a Musical. Other big winners of Melbourne’s premier performing arts awards included Opera Australia’s Ring Cycle, which won six awards, including Best Production of an Opera, and Melbourne Theatre Company’s Miss Julie, which won
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The Australian Ballet’s new triple bill, Faster, exemplifies the pace and complexity of 2017 life. It also offers audiences a chance to pause and appreciate a display of incredible physicality, deep intelligence and pure emotion – elements that can get lost in our hyper-connected, 24-7, technology driven world. Opening act Faster celebrates the immense capabilities
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By Daily Review
On Monday in Montreal, dancer Susan Paulson will perform a dance piece set to Leonard Cohen’s song Famous Blue Raincoat, but she has been forced to perform it in silence because another Montreal dance company has just nabbed an exclusive deal to use Cohen’s music. Last week Ballets Jazz de Montreal said it had signed a
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By Daily Review
The Green Room awards — possibly the world’s most comprehensive performing arts awards — has announced the nominees for its customary mammoth list of categories: cabaret, contemporary and experimental performance, dance, independent theatre, music theatre, opera, and theatre companies. Each of these categories has up to ten separate sub-categories. The nominee list this year contains over 330 names of individual
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By Maxim Boon
In legendary funny-man Mel Brooks’s film The Producers, a pair of hapless con artists looking to put on a flop, stage a new musical – Springtime for Hitler: A Gay Romp With Eva and Adolf at Berchtesgaden. It’s a show they believe so tasteless, offensive and ideologically repulsive, that audiences will be sent running. Much
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